{"id":5752,"date":"2015-03-12T09:22:08","date_gmt":"2015-03-12T13:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/?p=5752"},"modified":"2015-03-12T09:24:24","modified_gmt":"2015-03-12T13:24:24","slug":"a-guide-to-hipsters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/2015\/03\/12\/a-guide-to-hipsters\/","title":{"rendered":"A Guide to Hipsters"},"content":{"rendered":"

This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items from the newly acquired Santo Domingo collection.<\/em><\/p>\n

\"The<\/a>The Hipsters<\/em>, a book by Ted Joans, is a collection of collages of paintings that depicts Greenwich village and the types of people that lived there.\u00a0 He explains\u00a0many types from the Folknik to the Hipper-than-thounik. The folkniks \u201ccarry musical instruments and long loose flowing hair as they sit on the steps of the hip folklore music shop or every Sunday gather at the Washington Square circle. (Notice the sad three meals-a-day look and the folknik who has been fingered out by Commissioner of Parks Newbold Morris for playing in the square that Sunday he banned folknik singing.\u201d\u00a0 \"The<\/a>The hipper-than-thounik \u201cis the overread writer or painter of sorts who speaks as an astute authority on every subject, even sex, which she knows only from books.\u00a0 For she considers herself so hip that sexual activity is strictly for squares.\u00a0 Thus the hipper-than-thounik is a sicknik.\u201d\u00a0 Also included is a three act play made up of Act 1: That Day, Act 2: That night or nite scene, and Act 3: The Flight. Fleeing, Splitting.\"The<\/a><\/p>\n

Ted Joans is a notable African American poet, jazz artist and writer.\u00a0 His works often include themes of Black Nationalism although he was also closely linked with the Beat Generation as The Hipsters<\/em> exemplifies.\u00a0\u00a0 Joans considered himself a surrealist, a point of view clear in The Hipsters.<\/em>\u00a0 He was deeply involved with the movement, and for a time was close with Salvador Dali as well as Andr\u00e9 Breton.\"The<\/a><\/p>\n

Several of Ted Joans books are available at Widener Library including Black pow-wow: jazz poems<\/em><\/a>, A black manifesto in jazz poetry and prose<\/em><\/a>, All of Ted Joans and no more : poems and collages<\/em> <\/a>by\u00a0Ted\u00a0Joans\u00a0; introduction by Ilizabeth D. Klar.\u00a0 The Hipsters<\/em><\/a> is in the Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection and accessible at Widener Library.<\/p>\n

Thanks to Emma Clement, Santo Domingo Library Assistant, for contributing this post.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items from the newly acquired Santo Domingo collection. The Hipsters, a book by Ted Joans, is a collection of collages of paintings that depicts Greenwich village and the types of people that lived there.\u00a0 He explains\u00a0many types from the Folknik to the Hipper-than-thounik. The folkniks \u201ccarry […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6243,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[72741],"tags":[113736,72720],"class_list":["post-5752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-widener-library","tag-julio-mario-santo-domingo","tag-julio-mario-santo-domingo-collection"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5TUly-1uM","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6243"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5752"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5752\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5762,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5752\/revisions\/5762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}